#Wakaba Isshiki

[hekxate]

first blood

(how i choose to believe loki presented, for the first time)

[smokedhamu]

More P5X AITSF AU, this time with new characters. Wakaba and AI ball partners in humanoid form.

Inside a somnium, they serve as the avatar for the Pysncer, following their commands as they delve into subject's dream and look for clues, a bit like going into a palace but they don't steal hearts, they gather clues instead.

[hilacopter]

Aaaand we're back! Things have been pretty rough lately where I live but I managed to scrounge together some delicious textposts for y'all, come eat :)))

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[afterthelambs]

I'm not sure if I believe the "Wakaba Isshiki did unethical experiments" theory in the fandom, but I do think this is the biggest proof of it in-game:

Because how the hell would she know that?

The first explanation is that she did experiments by sending people into palaces and then testing what happens to them if the palace collapses. Which is messed up for obvious reasons.

The second explanation is that she did NOT test it, meaning she was just making shit up. Which is funny but also would make her a terrible scientist. This explanation is less believable because everything else about her research is too accurate.

There's also a theory that Wakaba did unethical experiments on Akechi specifically. I'm not sure I believe that, since the evidence for it is pretty shallow (like the featherman game scientist experimenting on grey pigeon). But this scene is once again the biggest argument you could make for that theory. The researcher in the image above refers to palaces by their correct term 'palaces', which they say was based on Wakaba's research. But that's only something you would know with firsthand experience of the metaverse. And the only person they know who could access the metaverse was Akechi (that we know of, but i dont think Shido would rely only on Akechi if there were other options).

So yeah this scene is very sus. It's most likely the writers didn't think too deep about the implications. There's no way they wanted Futaba's mom to be sketchy, right? But even if it's not intentional, the scenes and their implications still exist. So in conclusion those theories make sense, I get it, and I don't blame anyone for headcanoning them and having fun. And tbh anyone involved with cognitive psience was portrayed as some degree of unethical (maruki for example), maybe this is just on-brand

[akechisstinkyfoot]

rose and rot

commission for juniper!

read the fic here

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Red-Colored Glasses

Alt of the last page undercut

[xviistrings]

(read from left to right)

he's a lot like his mother

[022mkkh]

💐mother and daughter

[racoon--art]

Futaba Sakura ! I’ve recently finished persona 4 and moved onto persona 5 so I decided to draw futaba!

[starryoak]

Making memes out of my headcanons, part 3, swinging bats at hornets nests edition!

[one-whole-rat]

You guys know that Wakaba died because Goro used Loki's Rampage/Psychotic Breakdown power, causing her to fling herself into traffic, and not because he actually killed her Shadow, inducing a mental shutdown, right?

Right?

We see it from Futaba's perspective. It doesn't fit the conditions for a mental shutdown whatsoever. It does, however, perfectly fit the conditions of a Rampage Incident/Psychotic Breakdown.

Debate on intentions here however you want, whether you believe he killed her on purpose or not, but the method of the matter is that he used Loki's Rampage.

[personachampions]

I've been waiting for this! Round 1 continues with Matches 26-30!

VOTE HERE!

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phantom thieves cosplay

[persona-game-info]

[dingostrash]

persona 5 is a video game

[senblades]

OKAY OKAY OKAY SO HEAR ME OUT

Akechi as a Velvet Room attendant au- but he effectively replaces Caroline and Justine in Ren's Velvet Room.

So basically: During one of Wakaba's questionable experiments, Akechi dies, and Yaldabaoth is like "Fuck, I can work with this" and scoops up Akechi's soul into the Velvet Room to act as Ren's attendants when the time comes. The whole 'splitting in half' thing was barely even Yaldy's doing in this au- Akechi's personas were already Robin Hood and Loki, so when he was dragged into the Velvet Room post-death, he manifested as two seperate entities.

Back in the real world, Wakaba's reaction essentially boils down to "shit", since she just murdered a child by mistake. Shido would normally be very upset by this, but he instead decides to make it work, and instead of having Wakaba killed, he blackmails her into complete compliance by holding her ethical malpractice over her head. Somewhat unsure as to the state of the mental shutdowns- definitely no psychotic breakdowns, though.

Meanwhile, in regard to other canon divergences- Futaba doesn't have a palace, but is quite upset with her mother due to how obsessed she is with her research, especially since all the stuff with Akechi. (Futaba is unaware of all this, for the most part)

Wakaba, on the other hand, does have a palace. Perhaps focused on guilt +deflecting blame?

Sae's role in the story is fairly similar, but rather than being on the mental shutdowns case (She might still be on the case, but it isn't her focus/leads into what she's actually interested in) She's obsessed with Akechi's missing person's case, since she noticed it two years ago and how suspicious it is, and is furious that no one seems to care, a concequence of Shido's influence and the general poor treatment of orphans.

So, yeah. Brainworms. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯